+1


On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 9:32 AM, Simon Spero <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> I would structure the book by task, showing how different languages would
> implement the same task.
>
> For example,
>
> using a marc parsing library in java, groovy, python, ruby, perl,
> c/c++/objective c, Haskell.
>
> Implementing same.
>
> Using a rest API
>
> Implementing a rest API
>
> Doing statistical analysis of catalog records, circulation data , etc.
>
> Doing knowledge based analysis of same
> --
> Treatment of each topic and language is likely to be cursory at best, and I
> am not sure who the audience would be.
>
> A series of  "<language> for librarians" books would seem more useful and
> easier to produce.
>
> Simon
>